Berkeley Tribe
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Identifier:
IA.ITM.001475
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Description
The Berkeley Tribe was a radical counterculture underground newspaper published in Berkeley, California from 1969 to 1972. It was formed after a bitter staff dispute with publisher Max Scherr split the nationally known Berkeley Barb into two new competing underground weeklies. In July 1969, some forty editorial and production staff with the Barb went on strike for three weeks, then started publishing the Berkeley Tribe as a rival paper, after first printing an interim issue called Barb on Strike to discuss the strike issues with the readership.
The Tribe was published weekly from early July 1969 until May 1972, covering and promoting radical politics, rock music, arts and progressive culture in the Bay Area.
The Berkeley Tribe featured cartoons by Robert Crumb, Gilbert Shelton and Spain Rodriguez; news covers and illustrations by Stanley Mouse, Rick Griffin, Victor Moscoso, Matthew Steen and Gary Grimshaw; poetry and prose from Marge Piercy and Diane DiPrima; feminist writings by Jane Alpert and Robin Morgan; original works by William Burroughs, Gary Snyder, Timothy Leary, John Sinclair and Baba Ram Dass, and photographs by Stephen Shames and Alan Copeland.
From late 1969 onwards, there were a series of divisions among the staff—over, among other issues, sexist advertising, a controversial cover showing a murdered Berkeley police officer, and increasing militancy in the paper’s positions—and the leadership and staff shifted towards the New Left. The Berkeley Tribe folded in May 1972.
(Taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Tribe)